n this edited extract of a powerhouse panel at the Universities Australia 2019 Higher Education Conference, Dr Liz Allen and Karlie Noon outline their journeys from disadvantage to becoming some the next-generation of Australia’s inspiring research talent.
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The university of 2040 isn’t a world away. In fact, the campuses of tomorrow are already visible. They are being designed right now – as you’d expect given that universities are the world’s original disruptors.
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In 2016, more than 30,000 university students took part in Australia’s first national survey on their experiences of sexual assault and sexual harassment – whether in their homes, at their part-time jobs, on campus, at social events or on public transport.
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Yesterday morning, the mid-year budget update unveiled research funding cuts of A$328.5 million over the next four years. This budget raid on research was more than double the size expected by the university research community.
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In Ireland, in 1854, some two hundred and sixty-two years after Queen Elizabeth I founded Trinity College Dublin, and around twenty years before the foundation of Adelaide University, a new higher education institution, University College Dublin, was founded by John Henry Newman, a Roman Catholic Cardinal.
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A decade ago, Professor Peter Buckskin – a Narrunga man from South Australia’s Yorke Peninsula and Dean of Aboriginal Engagement and Strategic Projects at the University of South Australia, became chair of the peak body for the Indigenous academy.
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More than 540,000 international students now choose to study in Australia. Educating some of the world’s best and brightest talent in Australia brings in $32 billion for our national economy and supports more than 130,000 Australian jobs.
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It’s a strange feeling hearing the announcement of your successor splashed across the media, and it caused me to reflect a little on what and where Deakin is in the world at this pivot in the leadership of the university.
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It’s the personal accounts of students living in poverty that bring the reality home. Among the scores of data and stories collected by the 2017 Universities Australia Student Finances Survey, ultimately it was their own words that spoke the loudest.
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Access to world-class equipment and facilities is critical to keeping Australia at the forefront of advanced science, research and innovation in an increasingly competitive global environment.
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Labor wants every Australian to get a great education. Everyone should have the opportunity to go to university or TAFE, regardless of postcode or income, if they have the inclination and the aptitude.
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In his 1964 Nobel Lecture, physicist Nikolai Basov described two distinct trends in the development of modern physics. The first pursues a theory to explain contradictions and irregularities: the second sets out to build new physical devices, and may discover new insights along the way.
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I want to tell you the story of two remarkable women. Similar to a growing number of Australians, Melissa Schenck thought she would never have the security of a career. Across two decades, she went from one casual job to the next while rearing five children.
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When Australia decided in 2009 to uncap university places, educational opportunity was to be matched to the knowledge demands of the future. It was a bold advance – and one supported by both sides of politics.
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The future of work is top of mind not just in Australia and the US but throughout the world. For many of us, the future seems to offer a dazzling array of choices. We can decide when to work, we don’t have to dress up for work and we don’t even have to show up for work.
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I recently came across a board game called Power Grid.
It’s like Monopoly for electricity: each player represents an energy company that bids for power plants, and then competes to supply the market.
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The value of knowledge is hard to narrow down and talk about coherently. Whether that might be putting up satellites, better understanding our oceans, or how we can better live within our environment.
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I’ve spent most of my life building robots and studying Artificial Intelligence (AI).
And I feel it's time to dispel some myths about AI, the future workforce and the rise of technology in our lives.
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In January 2018 the Innovation and Science Australia (ISA) Board released our report to Government entitled Australia 2030: Prosperity through Innovation. The report includes 30 recommendations to Government aimed at strengthening Australia’s innovation performance and put our nation into the international top-tier by 2030.
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University philanthropy can profoundly enhance our impact in the world.
It now supports a wide array of additional activities at Australian universities – from life-changing scholarships through to critical funds for research to cure disease and improve our quality of life.
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I could say that almost nothing keeps me awake at night because in truth I sleep very soundly.
But, perhaps, in the spirit of the program, I can say a number of things keep me awake at night.
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International education makes a major contribution to Australia’s economy and society.
Not only is it the nation’s third largest export – generating income of $28 billion a year – but it’s also a powerful contributor to our connections and soft diplomacy across the world.
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It’s been a rollercoaster of a year in higher education in Australia.
Universities Australia has led a vast program of work on behalf of the sector – driving advocacy on a wide array of issues affecting our members.
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Over the past months there has been a concerted focus by universities across Australia to highlight the potential of the Government’s higher education package to derail Australia’s productivity and economic growth agenda.
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The Australian economy is currently transforming. We are moving away from a resource-based economy while simultaneously dealing with the automation of many tasks previously performed by people.
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